Don’t Cheat on the Ethics Exam

To become a certified public accountant in the US, you need to pass four separate exams administered by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, which test your knowledge of business, financial accounting, regulation and the auditing process. The exams include multiple-choice questions and simulations; each exam takes four hours and is administered at a Prometric test center. Candidates are fingerprinted at the test center to make sure that they are who they say they are. Historical pass rates for most of the exams are around 50%. There are also education and work-experience requirements before you can call yourself a CPA.

Also there is an ethics test? Most states require one, anyway; some don’t. You take that one at home on your computer or whatever. The exam used in most states is open-book and multiple-choice. Here’s an online CPA-study-guide site: